Posted by:
saviorself
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Date: January 26, 2013 02:56PM
I am not a cat expert but I have owned a cat for six years. So I can tell you some stuff I learned.
My cat (Domino) was obtained from an animal rescue place at age 8 weeks. The intent was for Domiino to be my daughter's cat and be a companion to her 10-month-old cat (Patches).
Domino went to my daughter's house on a Sunday afternoon. Right away it was evident that Patches would not get along with Domino. But that's another story. By Tuesday morning Domino had diarrhea. Daughter didn't have the money or time to take Domino to a vet. By the following Sunday Domino was not eating or drinking water. So I took Domino home with me.
I found a "cat health advice" place on the Internet and paid them $10 for some advice. I was told that diarrhea disrupts the electrolyte balance of the cat's body. If that is not immediately treated it can cause death. I was told to go to a drug store and buy some liquid Pedialyte (for children). I got a squeeze dropper from the pharmacist and then started feeding Domino the Pedialyte from the dropper.
I was told to feed the Pedialyte for 15 minutes, then stop for 15 minutes, and then repeat that routine for 8 to 10 hours. I also bought some canned kitten food and took that home. After four hours of feeding the Pedialyte (15 minutes on, 15 minutes off), I mixed some Pedialyte with the canned food to get a mixture that I could draw into the dropper. Then I started dropper-feeding Domino the catfood-Pedialyte mixture.
After about eight hours Domino had perked up and was obviously feeling a lot better. I fed him more catfood-Pedialyte during the night and first thing on Monday morning I took him to my veterinarian.
The vet said that what I had been doing was exactly the right treatment. They ran a fecal test and determined that Domino was infected with Coccidia parasite. Information here:
http://www.cat-world.com.au/coccidiosis-in-catsThe vet sold me a medicine called Albon and I fed that to Domino for a week. That eliminated the Coccidia.
When Domino was about four years old he started vomiting up his food. I was feeding him a dry kibble cat food. For three days he couldn't keep the food down. I took him to the vet and they did a lot of tests on Domino. The vet bill was $450 for the one day of an exam and testing. The tests did not find anything wrong. The vet suggested that I stop feeding the dry kibble and switch to canned cat food.
I made that switch and Domino did just fine with the canned cat food. He has been totally healthy since that time.
My suggestion is that you buy the child Pedialyte and dropper feed it to your cat. And then mix the Pedialyte with canned cat food, to a liquid consistency that can by drawn into the dropper, and then feed that. This will hopefully get your cat somewhat healthy again and then you should take the cat to your vet on Monday. Try to collect a fresh stool sample to take along.
Good luck.